DIEGO RIVERA | HOMBRE MARTILLANDO PIEDRA

Lot Closed

May 18, 05:42 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Fodor, Cleveland, Ohio

DIEGO RIVERA

(1886 - 1957)

HOMBRE MARTILLANDO PIEDRA

Signed Diego Rivera and dated 1944 (upper left)

Watercolor and brush and ink on rice paper

15¼ by 11 in. (37.7 by 27.9 cm)

Framed: 25 by 20¾ in. (63.5 by 52.7 cm)

Executed in April 1944.

We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in confirming the authenticity of this lot.

Galerías Modernas, Mexico City

Galería de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City

Paul Hendrick, United States (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 3, 1973, lot 54)

Jack Wolgin, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale)

Galería de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

Sale: Christie's, New York, May 12, 1983, lot 35

Isabella Rayburn, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 25, 1986, lot 4)

Acquired at the above sale

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, ed., Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete, Mexico City, 1989, no. 1666, illustrated n.p.

Philadelphia, Moore College of Art Gallery, Mexican Artists, 1975, n.n.